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Nikki Haley exploring 2024 presidential run: 'I've never lost a race'

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Nikki Haley addresses possible presidential run

Former South Carolina governor looks at leadership qualifications as she mulls 2024 run on 'Special Report.'

Former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley said she's close on making a decision to run for president in 2024.

"Well, when you're looking at a run for president, you look at two things. You first look at, 'does the current situation push for new?' The second question is, 'am I that person that could be that new leader?' You know, on the first question, you can look all across the board, domestic, foreign policy. You can look at, you know, inflation going up, economy shrinking, government getting bigger, you know, small business owners not being able to pay their rent. Big businesses getting these bailouts, all of these things warrant the fact that, yes, we need to go in a new direction," Haley said.

"So do I think I could be that leader? Yes, But we are still working through things and we'll figure it out. I've never lost a race. I said that then I still say that now. I'm not going to lose now," she added.

When asked about a statement she previously gave to an Associated Press reporter, stating that she "would not run if President Trump ran," Haley said that the "survival of America matters."

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Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations, appears at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, 2022.

"It's bigger than one person. And when you're looking at the future of America, I think it's time for new generational change. I don't think you need to be 80 years old to go be a leader in D.C.," Haley said. "I think we need a young generation to come in, step up, and really start fixing things."

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When asked about a statement she previously gave to an Associated Press reporter, stating that she "would not run if President Trump ran," Haley said that the "survival of America matters."

Referring back to her statement on Trump, Haley said that she "said that before we surrendered to Afghanistan, it was before we saw this high inflation and high crime, it was before we saw drugs infesting all of our states, it was before we saw our foreign policy in disarray, so a lot has changed."

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Former United Nations Ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley campaigns on behalf of GOP congressional candidate Matt Mowers of New Hampshire at an event in Derry, New Hampshire, on April 4, 2022.

"And when I look at that, I look at the fact if I'm this passionate and I'm this determined, why not me?," Haley said.

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Haley said to "stay tuned" when asked if she was getting close to the exploratory committee phase of a possible presidential campaign.

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BROADBAND INTERNET EQUITY...Americans are sick of substandard broadband,

✓ "...Unfortunately for the nation’s monopolies, COVID ignited an unprecedented sense of policy urgency after Americans got a dramatic crash course in the importance of reliable, affordable broadband. That motivation isn’t expected to wane anytime soon. Americans are sick of substandard broadband, and industry efforts to protect themselves from disruption and reform are much harder than they used to be."


 

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Telecom Giants Head To Court To Kill NY State’s Demand They Give Poor People $15 Broadband

Fri, Jan 20th 2023 05:21am - Karl Bode
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"Recently, New York State passed a new law (pdf) demanding that regional broadband providers (Verizon, Charter Spectrum, and Altice) provide low-income consumers $15, 25 Mbps broadband tiers to help them survive COVID. The goal: to try and help struggling Americans afford the high cost of broadband during an historic health crisis. Under the proposal ISPs are also allowed to offer $20, 200 Mbps tiers, with any price increases capped at two percent per year.

✓ U.S. Regulators engaging in anything even close to price regulation of regional monopolies is, again, said monopolies’ worst nightmare. As a result, the broadband industry quickly sued New York, insisting that the state is forbidden from passing such a law thanks in part to the Trump administration’s net neutrality repeal (which basically attempted to lobotomize state consumer protection authority in addition to killing popular net neutrality rules).

As the case heads to court, it could have broader implications for other state efforts to mandate lower costs for consumers (in times of crisis or not):

“The industry fear is that other states might impose requirements far more onerous than what New York requires, such as by further lowering the price, raising the speed requirements, or expanding the eligibility pool to make broadband ‘affordable’ for middle-class customers,” added Levin.

These are, of course, the same regional telecom monopolies recently busted for charging low income Americans significantly more money for what’s often slower service. Why? Because they can. There’s very little competition in many of these neighborhoods, and in most states lawmakers and regulators are little more than glorified rubber stamps for telecom monopoly interests.


These are also many of the same regional telecom monopolies recently caught ripping off COVID relief programs to their own financial benefit. They want to ruthlessly derail any competitive disruption then exploit the end result. When government rarely steps in to try and address market failure, it runs into a court system that generally tends to favor monopolization over the public interest, and into politicians who are blindly loyal to companies tethered to our first responder and domestic surveillance networks.

Ideally, you’d prefer pro-competitive policies to price caps. New York State is attempting that as well by embracing community broadband networks and community-owned middle mile networks designed to drive down overall access costs. ✓ Entrenched telecom monopolies are busy trying to crush those efforts as well in a bid to maintain the very broken, but very profitable, status quo.

Unfortunately for the nation’s monopolies, COVID ignited an unprecedented sense of policy urgency after Americans got a dramatic crash course in the importance of reliable, affordable broadband. That motivation isn’t expected to wane anytime soon. Americans are sick of substandard broadband, and industry efforts to protect themselves from disruption and reform are much harder than they used to be.

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